A jury last week awarded an Oregon couple $2.9 million for the "wrongful birth" of their 4-year-old daughter, who has Down syndrome. The parents, Ariel and Deborah Levy, say that they would have aborted the pregnancy had they known the child would be born with the chromosomal abnormality, but that a Legacy Health lab botched a prenatal test. The couple says they now face a lifetime of expenses they can't afford, from speech therapy to medical care, so the company should pay. The case — one of a handful of "wrongful birth" suits filed each year — has sparked heated debate over the ethics of aborting fetuses with birth defects. Are "wrongful birth" lawsuits something courts should even allow?

No, there is no such thing as a "wrongful birth": These lawsuits should be outlawed, says Wesley J. Smith at The Daily Caller. They're just "the newest front in the ongoing eugenic search-and-destroy mission aimed at wiping people with Down syndrome off the face of the earth." Ninety percent of babies testing positive for Down syndrome and other conditions are now aborted, and that's disgraceful. "We may have a right to have a baby, but we don't — or at least shouldn’t — have a right to the baby we want.""Wrongful birth lawsuits are wrongful"